UNC Hosts Virginia, Senior Night On Thursday

February 25, 2015 | Women's Basketball

By: UNC Athletic Communications

CHAPEL HILL - No. 15 North Carolina hosts its final home game of the regular season on Thursday against Virginia at 7 p.m. UNC will honor its senior class with a brief ceremony before tip-off inside Carmichael Arena.

GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Carmichael Arena
Date: Thursday, Feb. 26
Tip Time: 7 p.m.
Broadcast: RSN/WatchESPN

TICKETS
Tickets are available online at GoHeels.com or by calling the UNC Athletic Ticket Office at (800) 722-4335 or (919) 962-2296. The Carmichael Arena Box Office will open Thursday at 6 p.m.

$7 Regular-price ticket
$4 Group Tickets (10+)

IN-ARENA ACTIVITIES (Throwback Thursday)
- Half-price all concessions
- 400 t-shirts for UNC students
- Live DJ playing Name That Tune - Wrap Party

SENIOR DAY
North Carolina will recognize its senior class on Thursday against Virginia.
• Whitney Adams spent the last two seasons as an undergraduate assistant after being forced to the sidelines with shoulder injuries that ended her playing career. She was a member of the basketball team for two seasons, appearing in 23 games.
• Megan Buckland played in 60 games for the Tar Heels over four seasons. Her Carolina career featured a variety of injuries that limited her playing time, but when healthy, she ranked among the best three-point shooters in the ACC.
• Danielle Butts has played in 127 games and made 19 starts in her Carolina career. One of the more athletic players this program has even seen, she has accumulated 679 points, 524 rebounds and 145 steals as a Tar Heel.
• Latifah Coleman is in her fifth season with the Tar Heels and has played in 134 games. She has been the starting point guard for most of the last two years, helping guide UNC to the NCAA Elite Eight last season. Earlier this year in Hawaii, she played perhaps the best game of her career with 19 points, six rebounds and six assists in the win over fifth-ranked Stanford.
• Brittany Rountree has played in every single game in each of the last four years and tonight will be her 133rd game with the Tar Heels. A pure shooter, she is the second most accurate free throw shooter in program history, making 79 percent of her attempts from the free throw line. She also ranks 10th at Carolina with 158 three-point field goals.

NATIONAL RANKINGS
North Carolina is ranked No. 15 by the Associated Press and 11th in the coaches poll this week. Virginia is unranked.

TAR HEEL TRENDS...
• North Carolina is averaging only 15.4 turnovers per game, the fewest number since the 1995-96 team coughed up the ball only 12.9 times a game.
• Opponents are shooting only 27.8% from beyond the three-point arc, the best figure in the ACC.
• Allisha Gray has nine 20-point performances this season, the fifth most in the ACC this season. She has 12 in her two-year career with the Tar Heels.
• Allisha Gray has scored in double figures 54 times in 64 career games.
• Stephanie Mavunga's 23 career double-doubles is the fourth most among active players in the ACC and the most among players in her sophomore class.
• UNC is 4-0 this season in games decided by less than four points.
• UNC has limited 11 of its 14 ACC opponents to less than 40 percent shooting from the field, including nine of the last 10 outings.
• Allisha Gray went to the free throw line 19 times against Boston College (Feb. 1) - two shy of the school record of 21 set by Tonya Sampson vs. UVa (2/3/93)
• Stephanie Mavunga's 92.9% (13-14) showing against ETSU on Jan. 2 is the best field goal percentage of the year in the ACC.
• Carolina has overcome a double-digit deficit eight times over the last two seasons, four times this year against Oregon, Rutgers, NC State and Florida State.
• N'Dea Bryant set a season high with 13 points and tied a career high with seven rebounds against Boston College on Feb. 1.
• Allisha Gray is 46 points shy of reaching 1,000 career points.
• Brittany Rountree led UNC in scoring at Virginia Tech on Feb. 8, the first time leading her team in scoring since Jan. 3, 2013 vs. Maryland.
• Sophomore Hillary Summers set career highs with nine points and seven rebounds in the 71-63 victory over No. 7 Florida State. She had never scored more than six points in 58 previous games with the Tar Heels.
• Allisha Gray has averaged 18.4 points per game against 10 ranked opponents.
• UNC is 11-0 when putting four or more players in double figures; also 19-1 when allowing less than 70 points in a game this season.
• Brittany Rountree has averaged 10.0 points over the last five games, shooting 50.0 percent (12-24) from three-point land.